The Community Chest announced last week that Curt Trinko will be honored as the 48th Citizen of the Year at a ceremony on June 3.
Originally selected as the 2021 Citizen of the Year, the ceremony was postponed because of the COVID 19 pandemic. Trinko will be honored by the Community Chest of Port Washington during a ceremony at North Hempstead Beach Park on Friday evening, June 3, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
This ceremony will occur immediately before the Residents Forward annual gala, an organization for which Mr. Trinko has served as Chairman for over 20 years.
The Community Chest’s Citizen of the Year Award recognizes a lifetime of outstanding volunteer service on behalf of the citizens of Port Washington and has been awarded to pillars of the community since 1969. All members of the community are invited to attend this free event.
Trinko is being recognized for his decades of remarkable volunteer service to Port Washington, including as chairman of Residents Forward for 20 years (formerly known as Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington).
Through his active education and advocacy work at Residents Forward, Trinko has recently been working on safeguarding our drinking water and advocating for effective land use plans.
His many other volunteer roles include at the Port Washington Parent Resource Center, New Salem Civic Association, and Port Washington Landfill Citizen’s Advisory Committee. For Our Lady of Fatima, he currently serves on the Pastoral Council, looking after the members of the parish.
He is the managing partner at the Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, specializing in complex litigation. Trinko grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and got his law degree at New York University.
He has been actively practicing law for 45 years and gained notoriety from an anti-trust action that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. After clerking for a judge in Chicago for one year, he moved to Port Washington in 1978 and began focusing on investor-related litigation.
“We are proud to honor Curt Trinko as our 48th Citizen of the Year,” said Community Chest Board chair Drew Hershkowitz. “Since the opportunity to honor Curt has been delayed, we hope more residents will attend the ceremony to recognize Curt and his service to our community.”
All are invited to place an ad in the Community Chest journal that honors Curt. For more information about the journal, the event, the honoree, or to RSVP, contact the Community Chest at (516) 767-2121 or [email protected].
